Root-puller.



1*. Hi-BROCK.

ROOT FULLER. APPLICATION FlLED FEB.23,l916.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916 sitar Jan ins n. ienocx, or JARVIS, on'ranro, canana.

BOOT-FULLER.

mlwmil Application filed February 23, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. BROOK, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Jarvis, in the county of Haldimand, Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Root-Pullers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to in'iprovemen ts in root pullers or extractors, one object of the invention being the provision of a device of this character especially adapted for pulling and topping beets, carrots and the like.

A further object of the prcsentinvention is the provision of a hand tool that is provided with removable cutters so that the beets, carrots or the like may have their tops first cut, and then after the cutters are removed the tool may be pressed into the earth upon opposite sides thereof, to be opera ted to embrace the roots and thus uproot the same without damaging the bodies of the beets, carrots or the like.

In the accompanying drawin z l igure 1 is a side elevation of the complete tool. Fig. 2 is a plan view from the inside of one ol? the members of the tool. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of one ol the cutters. Fig. 4c is a side elevation of a modified form of root puller.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates one member and 6 the other mem ber of the tool. Each member provided with an operating handle 7, the shank S of which is pivotally col'inected as at 5), to the shank of the other member. The curved terminal or each shank is provided with rivet openings 10, for the reception of the rivets ll, that attach the spoon shaped .root ei'nhracing plate or member 12 thereto. lo the free endot each plate 12 are provided two bolt receiving apertures .1 3, for the bolts 14-, which removahl attach the cutters otblades 1'5 to the plates 12, the cutting edges in being toward each other so that "1101) Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5," 1916.

Serial No. 80,005.

the plates l2 by the manipulation of the handles are moved together the cutting edges of the blades will coact and sever the tops from the beet or other root, previous to the pulling ot the root.

When it is desired to pull the root, the blades 12 are removed and the plates 15 are spread by the handles and then forced downwardly astride the root, being forced toward to embrace the root, at which time the tool is pulled upwardly and carries with it the root.

In the form shown in Fig. l, shanks 17 and spoon shaped plates 18 are integal, and have formed upon their inner faces intermediate of their ends the shoulders 19, to which are attached the top cutters or blades 20, thus providing a. tool that will permit the bcet carrot or the like to be topped and pulled in one o x-sration.

What I claim, as new, is 1* 1. A. puller of the character described, comprising a pair of members pivotally eonnected to each other each member being forn'ied with a shank having an operating handle at one end, a clod embracing and earth cutting plate carried by each memher, and a cutter detachably mounted upon each plate.

2. A puller of the character described, comprising a pair of members movably connected to each other and having clod em bracing and earth cutting meam thereon, and top cutters carried by the respective members.

A puller of the character described, comprising a pair 01 membei's movahly con nected to each other and having clod embracing and earth cutting means thereon, top cutters carried by the respective members, and means lon'dctachably connecting the top cutters to the IDOIIlbOl'S.

In testimony whereo'. l allix my signature.

JAMES H. BROCK.

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